iPad Grabs 58% of Tablet Shipments in 4Q 2011
Peter King, Director at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in Q4 2011, surging 150 percent from 10.7 million in Q4 2010. Demand for tablets among consumer, business and education users remains strong. Apple shipped a robust 15.4 million iPads worldwide and maintained its strong market leadership with 58 percent share during the fourth quarter of 2011. Apple shrugged off the much-hyped threat from entry-level Android models this quarter.”
Despite strong growth in shipment share for Android, Apple's share is down less than four percentage points since the firm's estimates for the second quarter of last year. Android's other gains appear to have come at the expense of Microsoft and Research in Motion, which registered at 4.6% and 3.3% respectively during the second quarter.
The relevance of Strategy Analytics' numbers have been questioned in the past due to its counting of shipments rather than end sales to customers. With many early Android tablets seeing little interest from consumers, the firm's reports were seen as overstating Android's impact by counting Android tablets still sitting on store shelves while Apple was selling nearly every iPad it could make. It is unclear whether that dynamic has changed with the introduction of the Kindle Fire, which has reportedly seen fairly strong adoption and which may have lower channel inventory needs due to Amazon's heavy emphasis on distribution through its own website.
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I'm surprised MS has such a slim part of the market.
...no, really.
OK, not really.
Who would think otherwise? They don't even have a tablet OS. Windows 8 isn't out yet. Until then, windows doesn't even run on ARM.
You CANNOT compare sold vs shipped figures - jesus I am so sick of saying the same thing over and over again.
Real world experience says that Apple's tablet share is much, much higher - I've seen lots of iPads around but haven't seen any Android based tablets.
Grrrr...
Despite strong growth in shipment share for Android, Apple's share is down less than four percentage points since the firm's estimates for the second quarter of last year. Android's other gains appear to have come at the expense of Microsoft and Research in Motion, which registered at 4.6% and 3.3% respectively during the second quarter.
Dahhhh, Q4 2010 to Q4 2011, the graph YOU GUYS show, states 10.6% LOSS for Apple and 10.1% GAIN for Android yet you claim Android is stealing from Microsoft who GAINED 1.5%. Where is this 4.6% coming from? I must be missing something.
"Linux" is freely licensed for the most part. "Firefox", like "Android" is not. Google has specific requirements for any use of the Android trademark, which devices such as the Kindle Fire do not meet.
http://source.android.com/faqs.html#what-does-compatibility-mean
The requirements are only for companies that want to use the trademark, not the OS itself. For instance, if a company wants to advertise their tablet as running Android, then they have to meet those requirements. If they don't want to, like Amazon, they don't have to meet them. They can still use Android as their OS.
Relax there buddy - the other chart which I am referring to is MARKETSHARE not shipped or sold.
It's market share based on shipped units, not actual sales, so it's still a bit meaningless.
I'm actually surprised Android is doing that well. I wonder if that's because Kindle Fire #s are included. I'm sure they are and that is why. I'm not saying they shouldn't be included.
Why wouldn't they be included?
Android is growing fast, and I don´t think Fire has much to do with it, its probably more Samsung Galaxy Tab, which for some reason everybody loves. :confused:
Kindle Fire is Android. Just a customized version of it.
Not according to the company that owns the name "Android". It uses the Android source code. It is not Android any more than a project that uses the Firefox source code to build their own browser is Firefox.
The relevance of Strategy Analytics' numbers have been questioned in the past due to its counting of shipments rather than end sales to customers.
That's all you need to read people...shipped vs sales.
Tired of these stupid companies that come out with reports like this.
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